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'''These are proposals that are being managed on an ''ad hoc'' basis by selected individuals.'''
'''These are proposals that are being managed on an ''ad hoc'' basis by selected individuals.'''


== Recipes Subpage and Accompanying Usage Policy ==
== Standardizing nomenclature for wars and conflicts, with system to link in partisan names ==
{{proposal
|Brief descriptive title = Recipes Subpage and Accompanying Usage Policy
|Summary of proposal = A new subpages option will be added to the subages template and an accompanying content policy will be written on [[CZ:Recipes]].
|Name and date of original proposer = [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]] 16:50, 12 February 2008 (CST)
|Username of driver = [[User:Supten Sarbadhikari|Supten Sarbadhikari]]
|Next step = Leaving [[CZ:Recipes]] to evolve with time and getting the proposal formalized.
|Target date for next step = March 13, 2008
|Notes = What should we do about listing, and/or cataloging, and/or indexing the recipes that I am beginning to put into various preexisting articles. Various people discussed this in the talk page of [[Bolognese sauce]] but nothing concrete appears to have come of that discussion. Even without any definitive policy being put into place in the near future, I will continue to add recipes to various articles. I imagine that it will not be difficult to catalog, or subpage them, or whatever, when the time comes. [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]]
}}


== Standard naming of biomedical (and other) articles ==
{{proposal
{{proposal
|Brief descriptive title = Standardizing the naming of biomedical articles.
|Brief descriptive title = Article names for wars and conflicts
|Summary of proposal = Encourage and facilitate usage of the [http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ National Library of Medicine]'s [http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.html MeSH browser] (browser [[CZ:Searching#Internet_browser_search_plugins|search plugins]] are available) in order to select canonical terms to be used as titles (when such terms are available). The benefits of this are: 1) reduce the chance of two authors independently writing two articles in parallel on the same content (but with different titles), 2) offer standardized definitions of terms that can be used at the beginning of articles, 3) anticipate common alternative terms that can be set up as redirects when the article is written, 4) facilitate the linking to CZ from other biomedical databases when web 2 arrives. As an example, we have an article titled [[Concussion of the brain]] which according to MeSH, might be better titled '[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Search&tool=cz&db=mesh&term=Brain%20concussion Brain concussion]' with a separate page called 'Cerebral concussion' that redirects to this page.
|Summary of proposal = We have had confusion, and some arguments, on the nomenclature for events involving "the extension of politics (group or national) through military or paramilitary means."  The confusion involves both semantics and syntax. We need standards.
|Name and date of original proposer = [[User:Robert Badgett|Robert Badgett]] 00:23, 14 February 2008 (CST)
|Username of driver = [[User:Robert Badgett|Robert Badgett]] 00:23, 14 February 2008 (CST)
|Next step = Vet this proposal to see if worth carrying forward.
|Target date for next step = 3/1/2008
|Notes = 
}}


==Article Content Request help==
Semantic:
{{proposal
*neutral name, with partisan and other names mentioned early in the article and with redirects to them (e.g., War Between the States, War of Yankee Aggression)
|Brief descriptive title = Article Content Request help
*Partisan names (e.g., Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2003 US invasion of Iraq).  
|Summary of proposal= [[CZ:ACR|Article Content Request]] should exist in order for authors to request article assistance on particular topics within a subject. This is '''not''' intended to be a request for editorial review, rather, it is a system devised to empower citizens to help out on subjects that they might know about. It is meant to spur activity and input from those who might have knowledge in a discipline.
*specialized (e.g., POLO STEP vice Iraqi Freedom)
|Name and date of original proposer= --[[User:Robert W King|Robert W King]] 14:09, 11 February 2008 (CST)
*high-intensity combat vs. occupation/nationbuilding/resistance
|Username of driver = [[User:Robert_W_King|Robert King]]
|Next step = Community Discussion
|Target date for next step = 14 March 2008
|Notes = Theoretical page located at [[CZ:ACR]] using [[template:request]].
}}


== Naming Conventions for Biographies ==
Syntax means choosing the format of:
{{proposal
*[location], conflict in [dates]
|Brief descriptive title = Naming Conventions for Biographies
*conflict (war) in [location] [dates]
|Summary of proposal = to adopt conventions for the naming of articles about people, living and dead. The basic principle proposed is: '''In general, an article about a person ought to live at the name at which the person is best-known to educated English-speaking people, with redirects from all common alternates.''' Significant levels of detail are offered.
|Name and date of original proposer = [[User:Anthony Argyriou|Anthony Argyriou]] 14:31, 14 February 2008 (CST)
|Username of driver = [[User:Anthony Argyriou|Anthony Argyriou]]
|Next step = Revise proposal per comments.
|Target date for next step = 07 March 2008.
|Notes = originally proposed at [[CZ Talk:Naming Conventions#Names of articles about people]], with no response.
}}


== Romanization ==
|Name and date of original proposer = [[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 09:58, 24 July 2008 (CDT)
{{proposal
|Username of driver = [[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]]
|Brief descriptive title = Romanization
|Next step =  
|Summary of proposal = Create a page called [[CZ:Romanization]] to deal with issues of how to romanize foreign words, placenames etc. that are normally written in other scripts, with subpages for individual languages, e.g. [[CZ:Romanization/Japanese]]. These pages would initially be for interested parties to discuss which romanization systems to adopt, eventually leading to official policy.
|Target date for next step =  
|Name and date of original proposer = [[User:John Stephenson|John Stephenson]] 02:25, 4 March 2008 (CST)
|Username of driver = [[User:John Stephenson|John Stephenson]]
|Next step = Develop proposal page and request feedback from other contributors
|Target date for next step = 11 March 2008
|Notes =  I foresee a series of rows about this in the future because, for example, Japanese words can be rendered in the Latin alphabet in several different ways even within the same system, and there is more than one romanization system in use anyway.
}}
 
== Create workgroup style guides  ==
{{proposal
|Brief descriptive title = Create workgroup style guides
|Summary of proposal =  To promote coherent style and subsections within each workgroup, aid new users with examples of equations, drawings and other how-to items
|Name and date of original proposer = [[User:David E. Volk|David E. Volk]] 11:33, 29 February 2008 (CST)
|Username of driver = [[User:David E. Volk]]
|Next step = Proposal manager must decide on EC or App & Feedback for decision
|Target date for next step = March 15, 2008
|Notes =   
|Notes =   
The idea is to have a workgroup-specific style guides to aid authors and editors for consistency
}}
}}


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Latest revision as of 04:16, 31 March 2024

These are proposals that are being managed on an ad hoc basis by selected individuals.

Standardizing nomenclature for wars and conflicts, with system to link in partisan names

Summary: We have had confusion, and some arguments, on the nomenclature for events involving "the extension of politics (group or national) through military or paramilitary means." The confusion involves both semantics and syntax. We need standards.

Semantic:

  • neutral name, with partisan and other names mentioned early in the article and with redirects to them (e.g., War Between the States, War of Yankee Aggression)
  • Partisan names (e.g., Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2003 US invasion of Iraq).
  • specialized (e.g., POLO STEP vice Iraqi Freedom)
  • high-intensity combat vs. occupation/nationbuilding/resistance

Syntax means choosing the format of:

  • [location], conflict in [dates]
  • conflict (war) in [location] [dates]
Original proposer: Howard C. Berkowitz 09:58, 24 July 2008 (CDT) Next step: Fill in next step
Driver: Howard C. Berkowitz To be done by: Fill in target date for next step
Complete proposal


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